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Definition: Excrete |
ExcreteVerb1. Eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Excrete \Ex*crete"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Excreted; present participle verb or noun Excreting.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | To get rid of waste from the body. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Excretion is the biological process by which an organism separates waste products from its body. The waste products are then usually expelled from the body by elimination.In mammals, for example, the two major excretory processes are the formation of urine in the kidneys and the formation of feces in the intestines. The waste products are eliminated by defecation and urination respectively.
In insects, a system involving Malpighian tubules is utilized to excrete metabolic waste. Metabolic wastes diffuses or is activiley transported into the tubule, which transports the wastes to the intestines. The metabolic waste is then released from the body along with fecal material.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Excretion."
Synonyms: ExcreteSynonyms: egest (v), eliminate (v), pass (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind). |
Excretion | Verb: excrete; (eject); emanate; (come out). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Excrete |
| English words defined with "excrete": eliminate, empty, evacuate, Excern, Excrementive, Excreted ♦ kidney, kidney failure ♦ perspire, purge ♦ renal failure ♦ sweat ♦ void. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "excrete": Acidosis, Renal Tubular ♦ Kidney Concentrating Ability ♦ renal tubular. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "excrete": Excretin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Excrete" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (excrete). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Diuretics help the body excrete excess fluid. (references) | |
The level drops if the kidneys excrete potassium into urine instead of returning it to the blood supply. (references) | ||
It helps maintain blood pressure and water and salt balance in the body by helping the kidney retain sodium and excrete potassium. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Excrete" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 51.72% of the time. "Excrete" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 51.72% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 48.28% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
excrete | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "excrete"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sekretohet, nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle). (various references) | |
Arabic | طرح (deduct, fling, floor, heave, lay, molt, moult, posit, put aside, put away, reject, squirt, subtract, subtraction, take away, throw away, toss), أفرز (secrete, sweat), برز (accentuate, break out, bring out, bulge, come into view, display, emerge, feature, form, germinate, heighten, image, jut, outcrop, outdo, point, project, protrude, raise, relieve, shine, shoot, show up, spring, stand out, stick, stick out). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop). (various references) | |
Chinese | 下泄 (Excreted, Excreting). (various references) | |
Czech | vymìšovat (secrete). (various references) | |
Danish | udsondre (to excrete), udskille (to excrete). (various references) | |
Dutch | excrementen uitscheiden (to excrete), ontlasting uitscheiden (to excrete). (various references) | |
Farsi | پس دادن (Giveback, Refund, Repay, Restore, Retort), دفع کردن (Dispel, Ejaculate, Eject, Exorcise, Quench, Raise, Repel, Repulse), بیرون انداختن (Bounce, Eject, Expel, Sputter). (various references) | |
Finnish | erittää (secrete). (various references) | |
French | excréter (to excrete). (various references) | |
German | ausscheiden (be eliminated, drop out, eliminate, pass, reject, retire, to eliminate). (various references) | |
Greek | εκκρίνω (exude, release, secrete). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"פריש צוא". (various references) | |
Hungarian | kiválaszt (choose, cull, exude, pick out, secrete, sort out, to cut out, to designate, to excrete, to exude, to predestinate, to select, to separate, to single out, to sort). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengeluarkan (educe, elicit, expel, secrete), berak (excrement, faeces, movement). (various references) | |
Italian | espellere (discharge, eject, evict, expel, oust). (various references) | |
Manx | keckey (defecate, defecation, dung, dunging, excretion). (various references) | |
Norwegian | utsondre, skille ut. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | excreteay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | excretar (secrete), evacuar (evacuate). (various references) | |
Romanian | excreta. (various references) | |
Russian | выделять (accentuate, allot, detail, emphasize, evolve, extract, exude, give off, give out, highlight, isolate, liberate, mete, parcel out, secrete, segregate, show favor, show favour), извергать (disgorge, ejaculate, eject, eructate, erupt, regurgitate, reject, spew, spout). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | izlučiti (exude, ooze). (various references) | |
Spanish | excrete, excretar (to excrete), dividir (break up, come between, cut, cut up, delimit, disjoint, disperse, divide, divide off, part, partition, portion, separate, share, sunder). (various references) | |
Swedish | avsöndra (discharge, eliminate, exude, ooze, secrete, separate, separate off). (various references) | |
Turkish | salgılamak (secrete), boşaltmak (bleed, clean, clean out, clear, clear out, close out, debus, deplenish, deplete, discharge, disgorge, dismantle, drain, drain away, drain off, draw off, drop off, dump, ejaculate, empty, evacuate, exhaust, let off, pour, pour from, pour out of, quit, strip, teem, tip, tip out, tip over, turn out, unlade, unload, unpack, vacate, void), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | виділяти (accent, accentuate, apportion, appropriate, discriminate, evolve, exempt, exude, give off, ooze, point out, secrete, signalize, single out, singularize, tab, throw off). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "excrete": excreted, excreter, excreters, excretes. (additional references) | |
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"Excrete" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eccrete, ecree, ecrete, Encreve, eucrite, excer, excert, excete, excreet, excreete, excreme, excret, excreter, excretia, excrude, execrete, extrete. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "excrete" (pronounced ikskrē"t) |
| 5 | -s k r ē" t | discreet, discrete, indiscreet. |
| 4 | -k r ē" t | concrete, secrete. |
| 3 | -r ē" t | greet, mistreat, retreat, Street, treat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-r-t-x" | |
-2 letters: erect, exert, terce. | |
-3 letters: cere, cete, exec, rete, tree. | |
-4 letters: cee, ere, rec, ree, ret, rex, tee. | |
-5 letters: er, et, ex, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-r-t-x" | |
+1 letter: excreted, excreter, excretes, execrate, executer. | |
+2 letters: coexerted, excerpted, excerpter, excrement, excreters, execrated, execrates, executers. | |
+3 letters: exacerbate, excerpters, excrements, excrescent, execrative, overexcite. | |
+4 letters: exacerbated, exacerbates, excremental, executioner, executrices, executrixes, expectorate, neocortexes, overexcited, overexcites. | |
+5 letters: excrescently, executioners, expectorated, expectorates, exteroceptor, hyperexcited, postexercise, preexistence. | |
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